The Pan-African Progressive Movements of Africa will gather at the International Conference Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Fifth Pan-African Congress to sign the Accra Declaration of the Pan-African Progressive Forces.
Next month in Accra, the Pan-African Progressive Front (PPF) will revive Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s vision of a strong, united, independent Africa by hosting the 80th-anniversary celebration of the Fifth Pan-African Congress in the Ghanaian capital.
The Accra conference will bring together pan-African progressive forces from across the continent and the diaspora.
Representatives of the movements will adopt and sign a declaration consisting of economic and political demands that are expected to define the next stage of Africa’s development, with an emphasis on industrialization, freedom from the economic and political influence of neo-colonialists, and a firm statement on the need for reparations.
The October 20-21 gathering will be the closest Africa has come to realizing the dream of Nkrumah, the foremost pan-Africanist whose leadership of Ghana’s effort for and eventual attainment of independence triggered a wave of struggle for independence across the continent.
Nkrumah imagined a united Africa where there would be no borders between peoples and where people would use their collective strength in the form of intellectual and natural resources to determine their own development.
This vision has been defended from time to time by activists and organizations but has not received sufficient support.
Africans have been trying to achieve self-determination, unity, and prosperity for 80 years, but the external pressure from former colonialists is doing everything to ensure that Africa remains nothing more than a raw material appendage of Western civilization.
Today, all this may change as the PPF leads a new campaign to liberate Africa from neocolonial and imperialist constraints. The PPF’s work has taken the baton from Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and promotes political and economic cooperation that will ensure the true liberation of Africa.
The long-awaited October Pan-African Conference will be marked by the presence of three representatives of the current generation of progressive world leaders: John Dramani Mahama from Ghana, Ibrahim Traore from Burkina Faso, and Miguel Diaz-Canel from Cuba.
Representatives of more than fifty pan-African movements from Africa and the Diaspora will also gather.
Their work at the conference will form the basis for the Accra Declaration of Pan-African Progressive Forces and will give impetus to Africa’s development for decades to come.
As part of the build-up, some high-level figures within the PPF fraternity have shared interesting perspectives as the countdown to the event continues.
For example, Humphrey Abbey Quaye, the head of the headquarters of the Pan-African Progressive Front, expressed great hopes for the future of pan-Africanism.
“I am deeply confident that together we will achieve the success we seek, revive the spirit of Pan-Africanism, and unite all progressive forces on the continent and in the diaspora to achieve the ultimate goal of creating a united, economically emancipated, and prosperous Africa,” he said.
He said that since the opening of the PPF headquarters in Accra, various goals have been achieved, paving the way for the Pan-African Conference.
He listed some of the PPF’s successes so far, which include supporting the publication and distribution of a book on reparations authored by veteran journalist Kwesi Pratt Jnr, a member of the PPF Coordination Committee, and supporting a member of the Coordination Committee at the 4th ECOSOC African Citizens’ Forum 2025 in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
The PPF also organized a series of lectures on reparations, African unity, and economic emancipation for students.
“We continue to organize and make all necessary preparations for our upcoming major event, the international Conference in Accra, Ghana, to be held on October 20-21, 2025, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the 5th Pan-African Congress held in Manchester in 1945,” he said.
Dr. Eric Don Arthur, a member of the PPF Coordinating Committee, said, “This is a clarion call for the mobilization and unification of all Africans to completely dismantle and eliminate all the artificial borders established by the European colonial powers at the Berlin Conference in 1884-1885,” which still divide the continent.
He described the PPF as a movement dedicated to full political freedom and economic emancipation as the final step towards achieving genuine African independence from the remnants of colonialism.
“We are paving the way for unification and the immediate creation of a continental Government in Africa: a ‘United African continent’,” he said.
Simeone Azoska, Head of Political Analysis Department of the PPF, also stressed the urgency of the pan-Africanist agenda, saying: “I expect this Accra Conference to be a historic platform that will move Africa from getting reparations from rhetoric to the stage of action.”
“It must affirm Africa’s collective demand for justice by bringing together leaders, thinkers, and movements across the continent and the diaspora in a united, uncompromising call to fight against the legacy of slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonial exploitation,” he said.
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